Need help finding pre-1750 songs.

Subject: Need help finding pre-1750 songs.
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Feb 00 - 08:28 PM

Help! I am going to a 1700's colonial re-enactment. I am looking for songs to play guitar that have to be written prior to 1750.

Subject: RE: Need help finding pre-1750 songs.
From: Pete Peterson
Date: 27 Feb 00 - 08:50 PM

Do you have Chappell's Popular Music of Olden Times? A Dover reprint, first published around 1840 I believe. You probably already know a bunch of pre-1750 songs (secular) starting with Greensleves and The Fox and Barbara Allen and Matty Groves and Geordie. . . how long do you have to play for? The Burl ives Songbook (still in print, my edition is 35 cents) has the first chapter as pre-Revolutionary. Good Luck

Subject: RE: Need help finding pre-1750 songs.
From: JamesJim
Date: 27 Feb 00 - 09:36 PM

Go to Contemplator.com for Child Ballads and other historical music. Jim

Subject: RE: Need help finding pre-1750 songs.
From: Timehiker
Date: 27 Feb 00 - 09:49 PM

Dear Guest, Most of my playing is done at these "living history" events. I suggest Soldier Soldier Will You Marry Me?, Jenny Jenkins, and, Whiskey in the Jar is always a favorite. Which reenactment are you going to, if I may ask?

Take care Timehiker

Subject: RE: Need help finding pre-1750 songs.
From: GUEST,Bruce O.
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 12:00 AM

There's a catalog of over 3500 of them on my website, (the broadside ballad index) and about 555 ABCs of tunes for many of them. Most of the songs (many with tunes) in Scarce Songs 1 and 2 are also earlier than 1750. www.erols.com/olsonw

Subject: RE: Need help finding pre-1750 songs.
From: GUEST,Murray on Saltspring
Date: 28 Feb 00 - 02:42 AM

A favourite song at Colonial Williamsburg is "Nottingham Ale", which has a good chorus, and goes to a version of "Lilliburlero"--that's in Chappell, page 573, and I think there's a thread on it too some good while ago. There's always things like "Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen" by Sheridan, and what about Shakespeare? They were still singing some of his stuff then, I think. Also, Drink to me only with thine eyes; Landlord, fill the flowing bowl; Lass of Richmond Hill (which the Williamsburg audience appreciated too when I was there); and The Vicar of Bray, maybe.